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Mariya Nishiuchi, a model and actress who has gained popularity among teenagers as the top model of the most famous teenage magazine "Seventeen" and recently appeared on the Fuji television drama "Smoking Gun", has held her first CD release event ...

The 40th issue of this year's Weekly Shonen Sunday announced the cast of the Magic Kaito TV anime series. Kappei Yamaguchi will reprise his role as Kaito Kuroba aka Kaito Kid in the anime. Actress Mao Ichimichi (Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger) under the ...

Bandai Namco Games unveiled a teaser trailer at the SCEJA press conference on Monday for a new Mobile Suit Gundam game for PlayStation 4. The game is slated for 2015. Bandai Namco Games' PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita game Gundam Breaker 2 is ...

Come autumn, the droning sound of an old man singing about yaki-imo (roasted sweet potatoes) fills the streets of Japan. A chilly weather treat that is usually bought from the back of a truck specially equipped with hot stones, yaki-imo is a fall ...

At the SCEJA press conference today, Atlus brought out a surprise for PS4 owners: Persona 5 is now slated for both the PS3 and PS4 platforms. A short animated trailer for Persona 5 was also shown at the press conference, marking the very first tim...

Trailer also streamed for project that lets fans make games together with Sony Sony announced at its SCEJA Press Conference 2014 on Monday that three Touhou Project titles for the PlayStation 4 are in development from Mediascape.

Sep 1, 2014 Two new Playstation 4 variants and one Playstation Vita variant was announced today at Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Asia's (SCEJA) Press Conference. A Glacier White variant of the Playstation 4 will be coming to Japan on October 9...

This fall, a number of Gundam SEED staff member reunite on Sunrise' latest original mecha anime, Cross Ange: Rondo of Angels and Dragons. A new site update adds to the cast of dragon hunting mech pilot ladies.

Alternative idol group BiS's another unit BiS Kaidan has released the footage from their last live event. BiS Kaidan (BiS階段) was a Japanese noise band formed in 2012 as a collaboration between the female idol group BiS (a name which stands for "Br...

Persona series chief director Katsura Hashino left a message for the fans on the series' official blog. Here's what he said:Hello, everyone. This is the Persona Team's Hashino. While it was sudden, during the conference that was held by SCE ear...

Here's a clip coming from Power Rangers Super Megaforce's 10th episode that features the Rangers transforming into their Legendary Squadron Modes and later did a Legendary Zeo Mode transformation. What's interesting about this clip is that the Sup...

After retiring from show business back in 2012, Yuichi Nakamura (Kamen Rider Den-O) returns to show business. Now under a new agency called G-STAR PRO, he wants to restart his show business career and to continue the support we have for the actor.

Norihiro Yagi's action fantasy manga Claymore is reportedly set to conclude in the November issue of Jump Square, on sale October 4th. The 2001 series, published in North America by Viz, will have run 27 volumes.

Disgaea 5 is coming to PlayStation 4. Sony showed a teaser for the game during their pre-TGS press conference. The game doesn't have a release date yet. NIS mentioned Disgaea 5 in an interview with Siliconera late last year, when president Souhe...

Compile Heart's first Galapagos RPG, Fairy Fencer F, is getting a follow-up in Japan next year. Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force was announced for PlayStation 4 this morning, and an official website (without much on it at the moment) is now live.

When the word "education" pops up, most of the time, the first thing that comes to mind is education for children. While parents and adults in general are often concerned about educating our future leaders, we tend to forget that parents need educ...

The official Japanese Weekly Shonen Jump magazine opened the page for the Shonen Jump+ project. The site features an art created by JoJo's Bizarre Adventure creator Hirohiko Araki. The site will later update with more art and the updates are sched...

Many new announcements were made at Sony Computer Entertainment's Pre-Tokyo Game Show in Japan yesterday, but at the same time, many previously announced titles also had their chance to shine on stage with new trailers.

Jump Square Magazine has announced that Norihiro Yagi's best-selling action-adventure manga series, Claymore, will be ending in it's next issue, which is scheduled for release in Japan on October 4, 2014.

At Sony Computer Entertainment's annual Japan conference, it was announced they're working with ZUN to bring Touhou to the PlayStation 4 – it will be not just a game, but a hopeful series of potentially all-new games.

Looks like the speculation about an upcoming Triage X anime announcement have proven true. Ahead of the October issue of Dragon Age, on sale September 9th, plans have been announced along with the launch of a http://triagex-anime.

Yakuza Zero Coming to PS4/PS3 Spring 2015 Release in Japan Yakuza Zero, which is set to be a prequel to the first will be coming out next spring for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 home consoles. This morning at Sony's pre-Tokyo Game Conferenc...

GOODSMILE RACING & TeamUKYO is currently taking part in the GT300 class races of Japan's top motor racing series the 'SUPER GT' under the banner of the 'Hatsune Miku GT Project'. The mascot character for the project is none other than Racing Miku,...

A beta version of Mighty No. 9 will be available to Kickstarter backers of the game that applied for the beta starting tomorrow, September 1st, Comcept announced at at a panel during PAX Prime. The beta will initially consist of just one level f...

Resident Evil: Revelations 2 has been officially announced. The game is being developed by the core staff of the previous game. The protagonists of the game will not be Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield.

This is a guest post from The Paper at Anime Diet. Just a note that Katsucon took place in February. I It was just after four on the last day of Katsucon. I had two granola bars and slightly more cups of water since leaving my bed over eight hours...

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